Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 183
somuch as the symbol it is said to bear. Without books on costume one might know thatflowers were soon to appear in dress at this time.For English gardens were being most thought upon; 498 Two Centuries of Costume Addison, Pope, Thomson, Mason, Shenstone, hadwritten upon gardening and gardens.… … Carved Ivory Fan. and embroidered flowers; and Mrs. Delanv cutwonderful flowers from paper. Waxen and silkenflowers were made, and flowers of shell. Wholedresses were embroidered with flowers. Naturalflowers even appeared upon the breakfast table,where I fancy no one had seen them since SirFrancis…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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